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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak to this Motion. I start by congratulating the honourable ‘iron lady’ from Machakos for bringing this Motion, again in the form in which she has brought it. I was here when this Motion came in a different format and we felt as a Senate that it was not strong enough. I am glad that she went and brought it back in this format. The hon. Senator who spoke before me said that this is a national matter. Indeed, it is because somebody who was then living in Nairobi but comes from Tana River called me and said that they have been told to reach out to their Senators because something is being done by the Senate. Therefore, even people in my own county were affected by that bomb blast. Madam Temporary Speaker, let me recall from my recollections of what happened that day. There was a truck that came to the American Embassy on 7th August, 1998. At that time, the Embassy was located in town, as we all remember, next to the Cooperative Bank of Kenya. There was a drop-off under the building housing the embassy, so that one could make deliveries. This truck that was carrying explosives and terrorists came in the normal manner as if to make deliveries. The guards denied them access because they had not been cleared to go down the barrier. In their initial plans, the terrorists had planned that they would talk their way through the barrier and maybe bribe the local guards. Then, they would gain access with a lorry full of explosives dummied as deliveries and go down. The explosives would then explode while under the building, so that the entire building would come down. Madam Temporary Speaker, the local guards who were at the barrier denied them entry. These terrorists became frustrated. Therefore, they started shooting at the guards so that they could gain access. In the confusion, that truck never made it to the basement. Had it done so, the entire Embassy structure would have come down. They decided to explode it at the parking lot. In a sense, the local guards saved many people because of their act of bravery. It is very sad because the aftermath was 213 deaths; 44 were Americans. Four thousand people were injured including this guard who did a very brave thing."
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